Comments on: Netflix Queue Reordering: Film at 11 http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/ Write the sequel first. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Pooch http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/#comment-283 Pooch Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:24:48 +0000 http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/#comment-283 Didn't you also have a situation a while back when (I think) the Grand Prix was totaled, and you pretty much ended up doing the majority of legwork that you thought you were paying your insurance company for? So yeah, it seems that most companies hate their customers with a passion. Regardless, this kind of treatment is, to say the least, shabby. Especially when you pay through the nose for a particular "service". But who needs to be nice to your customers? Consideration? What's that? You know, my initial comment was more of a snarky quip than anything (albeit a quip with a grain of truth to it), but more and more "real life" <b>does</b> seem to be like high school, what with secret, unpublished rules that come complete with disproportionate punishments. Who would have thought that place would be preparing us so well for life after school? Just be careful if you're ever in a building if a fire breaks out. You don't want to take the wrong route to safety and be punished for it. Didn’t you also have a situation a while back when (I think) the Grand Prix was totaled, and you pretty much ended up doing the majority of legwork that you thought you were paying your insurance company for? So yeah, it seems that most companies hate their customers with a passion. Regardless, this kind of treatment is, to say the least, shabby. Especially when you pay through the nose for a particular “service”. But who needs to be nice to your customers? Consideration? What’s that?

You know, my initial comment was more of a snarky quip than anything (albeit a quip with a grain of truth to it), but more and more “real life” does seem to be like high school, what with secret, unpublished rules that come complete with disproportionate punishments. Who would have thought that place would be preparing us so well for life after school?

Just be careful if you’re ever in a building if a fire breaks out. You don’t want to take the wrong route to safety and be punished for it.

]]> By: Chief Oddball http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/#comment-282 Chief Oddball Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:07:34 +0000 http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/#comment-282 Heh, I haven't told Apple about today's foul-up yet...she's going to be annoyed big time. There seems to be a rash of this attitude in business lately, the whole idea of "Okay, enjoy the service! ...Oh, wait...don't enjoy it <em>that</em> much." It's particularly bad with cable and phone companies. Comcast High-Speed Internet has a hidden glass ceiling where, if you download too much, they cancel your account. The limit is unpublished and the company won't reveal what it is, except to say that basically if you download significantly more than 90% of the other people in your local area, you could get cut. That makes me wonder, if I live in a community of old fogies who only check their email, would I get ousted for downloading a 500 MB game demo one time? Heh, I haven’t told Apple about today’s foul-up yet…she’s going to be annoyed big time.

There seems to be a rash of this attitude in business lately, the whole idea of “Okay, enjoy the service! …Oh, wait…don’t enjoy it that much.” It’s particularly bad with cable and phone companies. Comcast High-Speed Internet has a hidden glass ceiling where, if you download too much, they cancel your account. The limit is unpublished and the company won’t reveal what it is, except to say that basically if you download significantly more than 90% of the other people in your local area, you could get cut.

That makes me wonder, if I live in a community of old fogies who only check their email, would I get ousted for downloading a 500 MB game demo one time?

]]> By: Pooch http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/#comment-281 Pooch Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:59:46 +0000 http://oddballupdate.com/2006/07/28/netflix-queue-reordering-film-at-11/#comment-281 "I can tell you this, though: I'm starting to get sick of being made to feel bad for using a service I pay for." How very Catholic of them. :) “I can tell you this, though: I’m starting to get sick of being made to feel bad for using a service I pay for.”

How very Catholic of them. :)

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